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This talk was given at IPFS Camp 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal.
A
Thank
you
so
much,
and
thank
you
for
being
here
so
my
name
is
Kelsey
nabin
I'm,
a
researcher
at
rmit
University,
where
I'm
completing
my
PhD
and
I
work
in
the
blockchain
Innovation
Hub,
with
a
bunch
of
institutional
economists,
lawyers
and
accountants
that
are
interested
in
the
implications
of
blockchain
technology
and
crypto
economics,
as
well
as
block
science,
which
is
a
complex
systems.
Research
and
development.
Firm
block
science
has
involved
with
the
computer
over
data
working
group,
we're
responsible
for
infrastructure,
called
cats
for
Content
addressable
Transformers.
A
So,
most
broadly,
this
meme
describes
what
I
mean
by
governance,
it's
by
Jess
zatler,
who
works
in
the
team
at
block
science
and
Michael,
zaga
I'm,
the
CTO
and
founder,
and
it
describes
governance
as
a
trash
fire.
So
anyone
who's
actually
ever
been
in
a
dow
knows
that
not
only
is
this
thing
conceptually
not
yet
defined,
but
neither
is
the
governance
patterns
that
we
can
use
to
actually
organize
ourselves
and
so
part
of
being
a
researcher
in
this
space
means
finding
or
developing
patterns
and
pulling
them
in
to
this
space.
A
And
so
how
do
you
gather
requirements,
design,
deploy
and
maintain
a
decentralized
organization?
That's
a
big
question.
Just
some
of
the
tools
that
I
want
to
discuss
today
is
navigating
information
infrastructures
I
actually
just
included
a
slide
before
this
on
Dows
as
Data
Trust,
because
it's
highly
pertinent
to
this
audience,
I
hope,
vulnerability
and
resilience,
mapping,
ethnographic
methods
and
the
viable
systems
model,
and
so
this
is
what
comes
from
my
same
helpful
colleagues
for
Block
science,
the
research
sandwich.
A
So
the
way
we
think
about
multidisciplinarity
in
in
our
research
and
decentralized
spaces
looks
at
qualitative
research
to
understand
state
or
or
what
is
happening
in
a
system.
What
are
people's
goals
and
aims
and
the
kind
of
subjective
elements
going
on
quantitative,
so
we
want
to
make
we
want
to
be
able
to
make
data
driven
decision
decisions.
A
The
whole
kind
of
thing
of
what's
going
on
here
is
that
we
have
this
computational
kind
of
augmentation
of
human
organizing
and
this
ability
to
do
online
first
coordination
and
then
the
quality
of
comes
back
in
as
a
feedback
loop.
So
what
actually
happened
in
practice?
Did
things
work?
How
we
wanted
to
them
to
work
whose
perspectives
Can
We
Gather
on
that
and,
if
not
or
if
so,
why.
A
There's
a
piece
on
engineering
ethics
in
web
3,
which
is
very
very
little
conversation
or
emphasis
on
this
topic
in
this
space,
techno
reflexivity,
which
is
a
practice
of
how
can
Engineers,
actually
bring
that
reflection
into
their
engineering
processes
that
helps
them
to
think
about.
You
know
broader
aims
and
and
goals.
Oh
I
know
you
don't
see
what
I
see
anymore
and
automating
austrum,
which
talks
about
Commons
governance
principles.
A
This
is
the
slide
I
just
added
you
can
tell
I'm
very
good
at
slides,
so
it
does
Dows
as
data
trusts
is
really
about
taking
existing
legal
patterns
of
how
to
govern
data
with
the
interests
of
vulnerable
populations
and
by
vulnerable
I
mean
adjacent
to
or
in
comparison
to
their
negotiating
parties.
So
how
can
you
actually
donate
or
put
data
to
work?
Contribute
to
these?
You
know
exciting
opportunities
to
add
compute
to
the
world's
you
know,
largest
decentralized
storage
network,
but
still
have
your
preferences
represented
of
how
that
data
is
used.
A
So
this
is
very
nascent
research
and
it's
interesting
to
see
the
theory
kind
of
co-evolve
with
the
practices
that
are
emerging
in
the
community,
but
I
encourage
anyone
to
have
a
look
at
that
on
ulti,
which
is
like
an
Amsterdam
research
institute.
There's
like
a
shorter,
more
palatable
version.
If
you
don't
want
to
read
as
much
but
that's
some
interesting
thinking
and
I
would
invite
anyone.
A
Vulnerability
mapping
comes
to
some
of
my
work
on
thinking
about
resilience
in
decentralized
Technologies,
so
take
vulnerabilities
as
a
relational
notion
to
resilience
and
by
resilience,
I
mean
adaptability
and
transformability
against
threat
or
crisis
for
people.
Ultimately,
so
you
can
have
resilient
technology,
but
it's
about
what
happens
in
practice
when
people
use
those
tools,
and
so
this
analysis
is
something
that
I've
used
repeatedly
with
the
block
science
team
for
analyzing
Dows.
A
So
we've
actually
had
people
to
start
start
to
approach
us
and
say:
can
you
do
a
mapping
exercise
of
a
decentralized
organization
and
help
us
think
through
you
know
what
we're
missing,
what
we
don't
see,
what
are
the
risks
emerging
and
to
think
about
that
as
external
threats
and
internal
vulnerabilities,
as
well
as
social
Dimensions,
technical
economic,
through
peer
review
process?
This
method
has
been
expanded
to
consider
legal
and
environmental
Dynamics
as
well.
A
So
this
is
vulnerability.
Mapping
in
practice.
You
can
read
that
on
the
Block
Science
Blog,
but
that's
that
was
a
kind
of
three
month
long
and
then
sort
of
four
month
review
period
that
we
did
with
Lido
Dow
thinking
about
vulnerabilities
in
Lido,
which
is
liquid
staking
on
ethereum
and
almost
every
other
protocol.
So
this
is
kind
of
the
level
of
gravity
I
guess
to
some
of
these.
A
The
ethnography
of
Adele,
so
my
primary
research
method
is
an
ethnographer,
and
that
is
a
method
that
comes
out
of
anthropology,
so
the
way
I
describe
it
is
it's
sort
of
first
known,
as
you
know,
going
and
interacting
with
unknown
communities,
you
know
taking
a
boat
to
the
other
side
of
the
world,
you
land
on
the
shore.
What
do
you
see?
What
do
you
experience?
What
do
you
feel?
How
do
you
participate
in
the
local
practices
and
rituals,
community
and
culture,
and
what
are
the
insights
that
you
gain
from
that?
A
A
You
know,
few
years
of
research
experience
which
has
you
know
for
me,
been
digital
ethnography,
so
staring
at
your
your
twitters
or
you
know,
reading
blogs
and
governance,
forums
and
snapshot,
vote
data
and
GitHub
and
all
these
things,
and
so
this
is
a
whole
paper,
the
style
of
it's
available
online.
Most
of
my
research
is
open,
source
or
I
process,
externally,
I
guess
and
the
full
paper
is
coming
soon
through
Epic.
A
So
four
questions
that
I
find
like
absolutely
pertinent:
When
approaching
a
dow
to
consider
it
and
if
you're
in
a
dow
or
you're
starting
your
own,
you
maybe
want
to
make
sure
that
you've
articulated
your
own
responses
to
these.
But
what
is
being
decentralized,
who
or
what
is
being
made
autonomous
and
is
that
functionally
autonomous,
so
in
the
way
that
it
runs
or
politically
autonomous,
as
in
free
from
external
political
coercion
and
from
who
or
what?
What
is
being
automated
and
what
is
being
organized.
A
So
what's
that
actual
animating
purpose
of
the
dowel,
why
you
want
to
have
a
decentralized
community?
And
so
this
is
a
really
great
methodology
to
demystify
algorithmic
systems
and
kind
of
bring
it
back
down
to
a
really
relatable
practice
and
that's
one
of
the
images
of
the
ethnography
of
a
Dao
in
practice.
This
is
what
happens
when
you
ask
a
system
engineer
to
draw
a
functional
map
of
a
Dao,
but
that's
a
very
detailed,
and
that
was
actually
one
of
the
first
organizational
maps
of
git
coindale
post,
their
exit
to
Dao.
A
So
to
have
the
opportunity
and
I
guess
a
privilege
to
reflect
to
such
a
large
and
you
know,
sort
of
seminal
experiment
in
in
web
3
funding
and
actually
reflect
that
back
to
them
of
hey.
This
is
what
we've
observed.
Is
this?
What
you're
seeing
and
how
does
this
representation
of
the
organization
actually
help
you
to
govern.
A
A
I
also
had
the
opportunity
to
do
the
ethnography
of
a
social
Dao,
which
meant
going
to
a
forest
lap
type
event
for
a
few
days
where
James
Blake
played
a
grand
piano
in
the
middle
of
Idlewild,
which
is
out
of
LA
and
again
observing
that
decentralized
governance
in
action.
So
you
know
what
are
people
saying
about
the
purpose
of
this
community
and
then
what's
actually
happening
in
practice?
What
are
the
funding
models
and
incentives
and
what's
coming
out
of
it,
and
that
piece
is
live?
A
You
can
read
it
as
well,
and
an
academic
version
is
coming,
which
draws
on
the
principles
of
multi-stakeholderism
in
Internet
governance
and
how
that
could
apply
for
dows,
and
this
is
the
final
one
I
wanted
to
touch
on
today.
I
will
give
a
moment
to
questions
if
people
have
them.
So
this
I
mentioned
that
I'm
kind
of
drawing
on
different
fields
and
sort
of
pre-existing
knowledge
into
the
the
sort
of
web
3
space,
and
this
is
the
viable
System
model.
A
It
comes
from
a
fellow
called
Stafford
beer
who
is
very
seminal
in
the
broad
field
of
cybernetics,
which
is
computational
systems
and
people
at
its
very
sort
of
emergence,
and
so
this
involves
either
conceptually
mapping
or
mapping.
Once
an
organization
exists
to
think
about
what
components
of
a
non-hierarchical
organization
are
at
play
and
what
I'm
missing
and
so
again
it's
another
tool
in
the
toolkit
to
think
about
you
know:
does
your
Dow
have
a
forward
planning
mechanism?
A
You
know
what's
who
who
in
the
doubt
or
what
function
of
the
Dow
is
looking
forward
to
actually
do
that
strategic
planning
same
for
conflict
resolution
and
it
helps
to
disambiguate
operational
functions
from
the
kind
of
meta
governance
level
of
of
policy
making,
and
so
we've
got
a
working
paper
on
that
and
it's
been
yeah
an
amazing
response
to
this
work.
There's
people
that
now
run
design
thinking,
workshops
on
it
and
a
whole
lot
of
other
things,
which
is
cool.
A
So
further
work
I
have
done
a
lot
of
work
on
end
users
or
ipfs
as
well,
and
a
lot
of
interviews
with
file
coin
storage
providers
and
so
on.
I
gave
a
talk
on
that
at
funding
of
the
commons,
so
there'll
be
a
video
of
that,
but
some
of
the
things
that
I'm
thinking
about
around
decentralized
governance
and
data
at
the
moment
are
looking
at
those
participatory
coordination
models,
as
I
mentioned.
Looking
at.
A
When
do
you
scale
data,
or
how
do
you
have
people's
preferences
represented
at
scale
and
how
does
that
interact
with
the
actual
infrastructure
of
storage
provision
versus
doing
your
own
storage
and
so
on?
And
what
does
that
mean
for
resilience
and
then
actually
being
able
to
test
these
models?
So
I'd
love
to
know
if
anyone
has
interesting
related
projects
that
might
make
for
a
good
kind
of
field
site
for
further
investigation.